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so we’re going to talk about iodine okay

you probably already know the importance

of iodine with your thyroid right and

also if a pregnant woman is deficient

iodine that child could end up with a

lord IQ not to mention even structural

problems I’ve done other videos on the

importance of iodine as an antimicrobial

iodine can be used as a patch over

viruses that can cause skin tags it’s

also good for fungus like a toenail

fungus and if there’s some type of

problem with radiation in your

environment you need to take iodine

immediately to protect your thyroid

against the damage but there’s some

other really important

purposes of iodine that you should know

about and the reason I’m talking about

it is chances are there’s a lot of you

out there listening

that are deficient since over 2 billion

people on this planet are deficient in

iodine unless you’re consuming shellfish

seaweed or sea kelp or consuming

vegetables on the coastal line chances

are you’re not getting much iodine

because our soils are so depleted in

iodine Farmers usually don’t put iodine

back in the soil they might put

potassium phosphorus and nitrogen but

not iodine so the level of iodine in

your body really depends on the level of

iodine in the food and the soil that

it’s grown on or raised on now before I

dive into some of these other issues

hypothyroid okay if you are deficient in

iodine you could end up with a

hypothyroid condition and you should

just know the general symptoms swelling

in the lower part of your neck

difficulty losing weight okay you’ve

tried everything it’s just not working

it could be your thyroid

next thing could be dry hair dry skin

thinned hair and even constipation so

those generally are the common symptoms

with the thyroid there’s a lot more but

I wanted to cover those the first thing

I want to talk about is the relationship

between iodine and estrogen

iodine buffers or helps regulate

estrogen iodine helps prevent someone

from developing estrogen dominance okay

that’s a situation where you have too

much estrogen and you might have heavy

periods you might get cysts in your

breast like as in fibrocystic breast you

might have cysts on the ovaries you

might have extra waking in the lower

part of your body the problem with too

much estrogen is that can increase your

risk for cancer breast ovary uterus and

in men you can even develop more of a

risk for prostate cancer so low iodine

could relate to high levels of estrogen

high levels of estrogen can directly

block the thyroid creating a hypothyroid

condition and the same thing goes with

low iodine it can actually cause a lack

of production of thyroid hormones giving

you a hypothyroid case so you can see

how iodine can help the thyroid generate

hormones and it can help buffer the

estrogen which is potentially a problem

for your thyroid iodine is also

important in the liver it helps you to

detoxify certain things it’s involved in

this phase one phase two detoxification

okay iodine is needed for phase two

especially in the detoxification of

plastics herbicides fungicides heavy

metals things like that that act like

estrogen and they’re called endocrine

disruptors

so iodine is needed to really dismantle

all that and remove that from the body

if you don’t have enough iodine it kind

of backs up in the liver it backs up

into the body if you have a hypothyroid

condition a slow thyroid your ability to

metabolize cholesterol is not going to

be good

so what does this mean it means that the

cholesterol in your body is going to be

elevated okay number one and really

unusable for certain things

you see we need cholesterol to make

certain things especially like vitamin D

your cell membranes and bile the bile

that is stored in your gallbladder is

produced by the liver is made out of

cholesterol and it regulates cholesterol

so if you don’t have enough cholesterol

whether because your thyroid is lowered

or you’re taking a Statin drug

you could end up with a bile the

efficiency and anytime you have a bile

deficiency

with an elevated cholesterol you get a

super concentrated or a saturated

situation where you can develop

gallstones and bile sludge okay and if

you have bio sludge or gallstones you’re

going to get pain or discomfort

underneath the right rib cage you can

get pain especially after eating in your

stomach area that pain can refer up to

the right shoulder and the shoulder

blade and the back part so without

enough bile

you know like I’m not even saying you

might get Stones you just might have

sludge that produces the same symptoms

and it’s really hard to detect so this

lack of bile can create a lot of

discomfort but also

one of its functions is to help you get

rid of cholesterol okay so now we have

another reason for it to back up in the

system and also to get rid of estrogen

and other things like that are in excess

like toxins so we have some enzymes in

the liver that are dependent on iodine

that can back up toxins but also without

enough bile you can just have this

backup of toxins through that pathway as

well bile also helps to kill

bacteria in your small intestine it

prevents what’s called sibo small

intestinal bacterial overgrowth okay

because it acts like a detergent to

clear that out and so without bile or

enough bile you can end up having this

bacteria that overgrows and then you get

all this bloating especially if you

consume fiber

vegetables salad things like that now

another thing that iodine can help

someone with is if they’re producing too

much cortisol like because they’re

really stressed right and they just have

high levels of cortisol iodine can help

lower that another thing that iodine is

good for is to help buffer

the excessive estrogen effect from

consuming soy products that’s probably

the reason

um some of the Asian population can get

away with consuming a lot of soy because

they also consume a lot of or seek help

that has iodine in it okay so if you

wanted to get iodine sea kelp is a good

way or seaweed same thing shellfish any

fish that lives in the ocean okay will

have a good amount of iodine but the

problem is like I said before our soils

are so depleted so unless you’re

consuming fish or seaweed or sea kelp

um you’re going to have a hard time

getting iodine now sea salt has some

iodine in it not too much but it has

some probably someone’s wondering right

now what about Hashimoto’s

should you be taking a lot of iodine if

you have Hashimoto’s the jury’s out on

exactly if you should but I will say you

need some you need sufficient amount of

iodine for Hashimoto’s and other types

of hypothyroid conditions but you don’t

want to take a lot of iodine if you have

Hashimoto’s just take a normal amount

from sea kelp the mineral that you need

in moderate amounts would be selenium

okay selenium you can get that in c-calp

and Brazil nuts as well as in shellfish

or seafood but selenium is really

important in the conversion of the

thyroid hormones from T4 to T3 T3 is the

active form so it helps make this

conversion

zinc also helps vitamin D can help

reduce the inflammation in Hashimoto’s

but anytime someone has Hashimoto’s they

also recommend in addition to that take

what’s called myo inositol okay take

that as well but I would not be afraid

of taking some iodine just don’t take

large amounts but I really wanted you to

get this very important relationship

between

iodine and the gallbladder iodine and

cholesterol iodine in the thyroid and

how that can relate to having all sorts

of additional problems I created a very

unique video on iodine years ago

and if you haven’t seen that I think you

would enjoy it I’ll put it up right here